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User experience should be at the forefront of innovative medical device development
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2011In consumer products it has been long been known that market share can be driven by the user experience with the product. In pharmaceuticals, the medical devices that deliver medication have been regarded as a somewhat peripheral part of the therapy. A new study suggests this is not the right approach for commercial success.
Cambridge White Space Trial – first tweet over White Space by Cambridge Consultants?
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Wednesday, June 29, 2011One of the progenitors of innovative wireless product development is the adoption of new standards …The first radio concept along these lines is the use of the white space in the TV spectrum on allocation and time dependent basis to provide services such as rural broadband and yesterday we sent the first tweet over a white space link from our building at Cambridge Consultants to a subscriber terminal in Cottenham.
When is it good to be disruptive?
By Patrick Pordage - Last updated: Monday, June 20, 2011I still haven’t made my mind up about twitter and whether or not this form of communication is a good thing or a complete waste of time in a B2B context. That said, amongst others, I’ve started following Hermann Hauser’s ‘tweets’. In one of his recent tweets he mentioned that he had just taken delivery ...
The role of Medical Devices in increasing efficiency in Healthcare
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Wednesday, June 1, 2011Healthcare costs are a major driver of government spending in many parts of the world driven by demographics and innovative product development that generate treatments for ever more conditions (at a cost). Some of this innovation needs, as in other fields, to be directed at efficiency and effectiveness. One driver of healthcare costs is wastage of pharmaceutical drugs and lack of patient compliance with the therapy leading to increased overall costs of treatment. Innovative medical device development, for instance in drug delivery, can address these problems.
Integrating Open Innovation into your R&D organisation
By Patrick Pordage - Last updated: Thursday, May 26, 2011Got a smart R&D function already? Well, at this year’s Front End of Innovation conference there has been good and constructive discussion on how to successfully embed Open Innovation it into your R&D organisation and throughout the rest of the company structure in order to deliver improved performance. This included an interesting panel session with ...
So you’re concerned about your Smart Phone being tracked – you ain’t seen nothing yet
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Tuesday, May 17, 2011There are real challenges to innovative wireless product development. Not so much from the difficulty of implementing wireless technologies though that can be challenging but from the system complexity that often attends wireless product development and deployment. One facet of the increasingly wireless connected world in which we live is that data about all of ...
China’s hi-tech product development revolution
By Patrick Pordage - Last updated: Tuesday, May 10, 2011When we think of China in terms of product development, most of us think about it as a home to manufacturing but not, necessarily, as the home of innovative product design. But according to a recent story from the BBC, China is all set to change that. The story, produced by the BBC’s Beijing office, ...
Innovative Product Development – where do I look for the opportunity?
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Wednesday, April 13, 2011New innovative product development has many engineering challenges, but most projects that fail won’t fail for engineering reasons, they’ll fail for business or organizational reasons. So how do you reduce these risks?
Can intelligent transport solutions save lives?
By Patrick Pordage - Last updated: Wednesday, April 6, 2011According to a recent article published by Autoblog, nearly all of us are either safer than, or as safe as, the average driver. In other words, it must be all the ‘others’ out there who cause the accidents. However, whichever way you cut it, there are still way too many automobile accidents each year. Wiki ...
Home / Consumer Diagnostics – A Step too Far?
By Alan Richardson - Last updated: Wednesday, April 6, 2011One segment for innovative medical product development has been in the home medical diagnostics area. A Which report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12905687 has pointed up the shortcomings of such tests
